Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org On Friday 14 September 2007 12:33, Robert Millan wrote: > Please could you add some check in debian/rules to prevent non-free > firmware from inadvertingly entering the linux-2.6 package, as described in > the mail quoted below? > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:29:29AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:37, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > There isn't any patch that should be required here. There is already > > > > a script in the kernel team repo to be used for pruning non-free > > > > firmware from the tarball, and it appears that whoever produced the > > > > initial uploads of 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 for Debian omitted this step. > > > > > > Why not running this script in debian/rules, causing builds to abort > > > when the non-free files are still present? > > > > Seems like a good idea, except that the script will also fail if upstream > > removes something - I don't know how often this happens though. > > > > I guess this info should be added to some bug, so it does eventually > > happen ;-) > > Done. Almost, but now :) regards, Holger
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